Mushrooming entrepreneurship: The dynamic geography of enthusiast-driven innovation

Brinks, Verena; Ibert, Oliver

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.01.007

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“…In more recent accounts on collective knowledge creation, this attribute is extended to “cross‐pollination” (Hagel, Brown, & Davison, ; Törnqvist, ). Particularly, communities of practice whose members are not bound by a shared profession but rather a shared interest are discussed as having diverse knowledge backgrounds (Brinks & Ibert, ).…”

Section: Knowledge Creation and Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open creative labs: Spatial settings at the intersection of communities and organizations

Schmidt

Brinks

2017

Creat Innov Manage

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This paper explores the relation between the notion of “communities” and the emergence of new spatial settings for innovation and creativity that we subsume under the term ‘open creative labs’. The paper starts by observing the omnipresence of the term community in both, self‐descriptions of coworking spaces, fab labs, etc., and first scientific publications on these spatial phenomena. However, attempts to conceptualize the relation between communities and these new spatial settings are still rare. This paper assumes that this gap can be addressed by adding the relation between organizations and communities to the conceptual debate. Therefore, this paper first presents a brief literature review on different forms of community–organization relations. Here, communities are regarded as entities that may exist within organizations, as alternative structures to organizations, as substitutes for organizations or as intermediaries between individuals and organizations. Second, we take a fresh look at an empirical data set on open creative labs in Berlin. We present a taxonomy of four lab types (experimentation labs, working labs, open innovation labs, and investor‐driven labs) and explore differences in terms of their community orientation and objectives. Thus, this paper sets out to contribute to conceptualizing the relation of communities and space.

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Section: Knowledge Creation and Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Open creative labs: Spatial settings at the intersection of communities and organizations

Schmidt

Brinks

2017

Creat Innov Manage

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“…Furthermore, users not only contribute to corporate innovation, but also often play an active part in shaping innovation. In other words, the Schumpeterian momentum can shift from the producer to the user (Brinks and Ibert, 2015; Grabher et al, 2008). More generally, the traditional form of orchestrated, patent-protected, science-driven and extrinsically motivated innovation referred to as “push-innovation” is increasingly complemented by novel forms of community-driven, problem-oriented and intrinsically motivated practices of knowledge sharing, denoted “pull-innovation” (Hagel et al, 2010).…”

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“…Instead, it is forward-looking, seeking to set an agenda for future empirical research and the conceptualisations of policies. However, the Open Region heuristic is not primarily deduced from theory but instead has been inspired by more than a decade of empirical fieldwork on innovation processes from a spatial perspective by the authors of this paper, individually, jointly and in collaboration with others (Brinks and Ibert, 2015; Grabher et al, 2008; Grabher and Ibert, 2014; Ibert, 2010; Ibert and Müller, 2015; Müller and Ibert, 2015; Schmidt, 2015; Schmidt et al, 2014). The heuristic also takes into account empirical analyses of more recent policies that are widely discussed in the literature and has been developed in close dialogue with practitioners in the field (see the Acknowledgements).…”

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Open Region: Creating and exploiting opportunities for innovation at the regional scale

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Müller

Ibert

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European Urban and Regional Studies

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The starting point of the article is the observation of an increasing convergence of regional development and innovation policies. These policies are heavily influenced by territorial innovation models that have been extensively revised since they first came about over 30 years ago. Yet, more recent trends towards digitalisation and conceptual advances towards a time-spatial perspective on innovation processes require a more fundamental re-thinking of the nexus of development, innovation policies and territoriality. This paper therefore aims to advance an agenda for reconceptualising region-based innovation policies beyond the assumptions of territoriality implicit in territorial innovations models and related policy schemes. “Open Region” is a heuristic way of thinking about proactive policy measures for redesigning the dialectic interplay between territorial openness and closure. These measures, in essence, aim at creating and exploiting opportunities for innovation within a region by mobilising external expertise and establishing local anchors for innovation. Finally, we address the limitations of applicability and discuss incentives for regional actors to embark on Open Region strategies. The suggested measures can work together, yet it is also possible to utilise them in an eclectic manner or to selectively recombine them in order to address different local conditions.

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“…To date, geographic studies have been concerned with how entrepreneurship is shaped in diverse sectors, places or local economies, and sometimes further considers its implications on global cities (Cheshire and Woods, 2013;Chien, 2013;Golubchikov, 2010;Ortiz-Miranda et al, 2010). Recent work has started to pay attention to how entrepreneurship develops from 'enthusiast-driven innovation' (Brinks and Ibert, 2015) and the spatial and gendered practices of mothers to develop entrepreneurship, or 'mumpreneurship' (Ekinsmyth, 2011). A Tardean approach we suggest, would further sensitise analyses of 'temporary aggregates, partial stabilizations, [and] nodes in networks' (Latour and Lépinay, 2009, p. 9) that energise, propagate and capitalise on the complex rationalities for pursing entrepreneurial life within and beyond conventional spatiotemporal settings of innovation, such as the workplace (also Barry, 2013).…”

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Hackathons, entrepreneurial life and the making of smart cities

2018

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Hackathonsquick prototyping events to create technical innovations for perceived challengeshave become an important means to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and the start-up economy in smart cities. Typically such events are organized by companies working in partnership with city administrations, and are predominately attended by technically literate participants who work in the tech sector. In this paper, we consider and critique the rationalities and practices of commercially-oriented hackathons. Drawing on Gabriel Tarde and recent re-engagement of his ideas, we analyse the spatiotemporal practices that modulate the passion and imitation in and around hackathons. We document how hackathon schedules and spaces are arranged in ways to extend but also exploit participants' passions for digital innovation and entrepreneurship, act as sites of upskilling and career progression, but also reproduce neoliberal and entrepreneurial labour and urban development. We argue that hackathons interpellate by attracting participants to desire and believe in entrepreneurial life and technocratic rationality to the effect of furthering the precarity of work and life and intensifying the corporatisation of cities. As such, hackathons reinforce the neoliberal underpinnings and ethos of entrepreneurial and smart urbanism.

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Mushrooming entrepreneurship: The dynamic geography of enthusiast-driven innovation

Cited by 30 publications

References 39 publications

Open creative labs: Spatial settings at the intersection of communities and organizations

Open creative labs: Spatial settings at the intersection of communities and organizations

Open Region: Creating and exploiting opportunities for innovation at the regional scale

Hackathons, entrepreneurial life and the making of smart cities

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